Washington Post Reviews its 10 Years on the Web

anaesthetica writes "The Washington Post is featuring three stories today reviewing their experience in adapting the "old media" to the new environment of the web. The first article examines their revelation that 'The news, as "lecture," is giving way to the news as a "conversation".' The second looks at the 'Kaiser memo' which served as the germinating point for what would become WashingtonPost.com, phrased in language that today seems amusingly quaint. The final article looks at the death of traditional print newspapers as consumers flock to internet sources for their news."

Re:If only they'd drop the registration

[NanoGator]

"I would start reading them. Instead, I keep going back to the BBC."

Yeesh, you only gotta do it once. They don't even validate the email address. That's what cookies are for, lazypants. :P

Re:First Newspaper on the Web

[stebbivignir]

The Icelandic morning newspaper, Morgunblaðið [www.mbl.is] started their online edition in 1995 i think.
Does anyone want to top that?

Re:First Newspaper on the Web

[Anonymous Coward]

So, which was the first print newspaper to have a website?

You're opening a real can of worms there but I'll submit the UK's Daily Telegraph, which launched its online version, Electronic Telegraph (now telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]), in 1994. Their tenth anniversary homepage [telegraph.co.uk] (from 2004, natch) has more details. According to Wikipedia's article on Electronic Telegraph [wikipedia.org], it launched on November 15th 1994 and was "Europe's first daily web-based newspaper".

Re:First Newspaper on the Web

[prockcore]

The Icelandic morning newspaper, Morgunblaðið started their online edition in 1995 i think.

The Arizona Daily Star [azstarnet.com] launched May 5th 1995.

Re:If only they'd drop the registration

[costlow]

I hear the BugMeNot firefox extension [roachfiend.com] is helpful for reading articles.

Re:Only once?

[myth_of_sisyphus]

That's why "BugmeNot" is one of the greatest extensions ever created. I click on a link, get confronted by a reg page, right click, down to BugmeNot, and I'm in.

3 seconds.